Randall Lyon

Randall Lyon
Personal information
Full name John Randall Lyon
Born (1952-03-04)4 March 1952
Trinidad
Batting style Right-handed
Role Wicket-keeper
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1973-74 to 1977-78 North Trinidad
1975-76 to 1982-83 Trinidad
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 40 10
Runs scored 616 40
Batting average 13.10 20.00
100s/50s 0/1 0/0
Top score 55 26
Balls bowled 96 –
Wickets 2 –
Bowling average 22.00 –
5 wickets in innings 0 –
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 2/31 –
Catches/stumpings 62/24 7/4
Source: Cricket Archive, 29 June 2014

John Randall Lyon (born 4 March 1952, Trinidad) is a former Trinidad cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1974 to 1983. He toured India in 1978-79 with the West Indian team but did not play Test cricket.

A wicket-keeper and lower-order batsman, Randall Lyon made his first-class debut for North Trinidad in the Texaco Cup in the 1973-74 season. He first played for Trinidad in the 1975-76 Shell Shield, when he led the competition's fielding statistics with 11 dismissals, including five stumpings off the spin bowling of Raphick Jumadeen and Inshan Ali.[1] He continued to play for Trinidad in 1976-77 and 1977-78, making his only first-class fifty against Barbados in 1977-78.[2]

With most of the senior West Indian cricketers playing World Series Cricket in Australia in the 1978-79 season,[3] Lyon was one of several inexperienced players to be selected for the tour of India. He played in most of the first-class matches outside the Tests. He continued to play for Trinidad until the end of the 1982-83 season.

Until Brendan Nash played in 2008, Lyon was the last white cricketer to represent the West Indies.[4] He lives in Trinidad, where he has coached young wicket-keepers.[5]

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